What happens when you hypnotize senators?

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on February 24, 2011 at 1:39pm

The thought of politicians having their own tactics used on themselves is really rather funny. I wonder how many of them would be cognizant of it and do they really depend largely on their speech writers for that approach?

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Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on February 24, 2011 at 1:51pm

 

Darn, I thought this was a riddle!

 

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Permalink Reply by Joe Homs on February 24, 2011 at 8:45pm

I think it's mostly the speech writers.  Presidents clearly get voice coaching and media training.  That's a given, but Senators aren't always in the limelight, so maybe they don't see it as important to learn the tactics, just have other people craft scripts so they can use them.

 

Sort of like the difference between using a hypnosis script and actually knowing how to create one on the fly.  Two totally different worlds, even if the words come out almost the same.

Kelley Woods said:

The thought of politicians having their own tactics used on themselves is really rather funny. I wonder how many of them would be cognizant of it and do they really depend largely on their speech writers for that approach?

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Permalink Reply by John B. Lee IV on February 24, 2011 at 9:13pm

Here is an interesting read. It is a full on how-to manual with some interesting and fairly scary observations about Obama's speeches. Obama PDF

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Permalink Reply by Joe Homs on February 25, 2011 at 9:22pm

Wow.  Impressive.  I'll take a look at this when things get a little less busy in my life.

John B. Lee IV said:

Here is an interesting read. It is a full on how-to manual with some interesting and fairly scary observations about Obama's speeches. Obama PDF

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Permalink Reply by Antonio on February 26, 2011 at 2:00am

John, I believe that Will Horton (a member on this site) created that PDF or something very similar to it.  I could be wrong though.

 

Antonio

John B. Lee IV said:

Here is an interesting read. It is a full on how-to manual with some interesting and fairly scary observations about Obama's speeches. Obama PDF

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